Re: West Virginia creationism

Ron Dean wrote:

Chris Thompson wrote:

Ron Dean wrote:

Ernest Major wrote:

On 14/05/2024 01:58, Chris Thompson wrote:

Ernest Major wrote:

On 13/05/2024 15:19, Chris Thompson wrote:

Ron Dean wrote:

Chris Thompson wrote:

Ron Dean wrote:

Chris Thompson wrote:

Ron Dean wrote:
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The Slave-holding South. Southerners bought slaves from the North. What about the Northern Slave Merchants and Manufacturers who built ships for the cargo for the slave trading North. This is rarely mentioned in history. And of course, history is written by the victors.
Not to mention the real cause of the US Civil War was tariffs imposed on the South. Lincoln had no objection to slavery. In fact slavery as a issue did not exist until 2 years after the start of the war. It was raised by Lincoln only after Great Brittan showed an interested in entering into the war on the side of the South. Slavery was then made a moral issue, which deterred Britten, which earlier had outlawed slave trading.
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Well we can add US history to the lengthy-but-ever-expanding list of topics about which you blather sans knowledge.
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The founders knew that slavery would eventually have to be abolished. But they also know that if they tried to do so immediately after gaining independence from Britain there would be no hope of forming a single nation. That didn't stop them from fighting about slavery (and viciously at times) in the Constitutional Convention of 1787- rather a fair bit of time before the 1858 point in time you assert (idiotically) people all of a sudden became concerned with slavery. And at that Convention a resolution was passed that the international slave trade would be banned in the US in 1800.
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You also apparently slept through the part in class when the Missouri Compromise was discussed. That was in 1820, and the result was Missouri coming into the US as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
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We probably should also mention the Compromise of 1850, brokered between Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas (do those names sound at all familiar?). This group of laws included, shamefully, the Fugitive Slave Act, which would do much to inflame tensions between north and south.
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But the two compromises also led pretty much directly to the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) which precipitated the disaster now called "Bleeding Kansas." Maybe you've heard of John Brown, and the Pottawatomie Massacre and the raid on Harper's Ferry? No? Not surprising if you think no one cared about slavery until two years before the Civil War.
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And tariffs were the cause of the Civil War? Even for you, that's unmitigated, steaming fetid fecal matter. It. Was. Slavery.
Not. Tariffs.
Not. States'. Rights.
Slavery.
Read the individual states' articles of secession. They're all available. Without fail, they all inform us that the reason they are seceding is slavery.
Read the reports of the Cornerstone Speech by Alexander Stephens- the Vice President of the CSA. Slavery is the cornerstone of their ideology; it is the reason for the war; it is the inherent inferiority of Black people ("the Negro") that relegates them to their lot as slaves.
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You're wrong about everything.
And this revisionist crap about the cause of the Civil War is especially disgusting. Stop it.
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Not that I don't find the fact that slavery is repugnant, unjustified and inhuman: I absolutely do.
But again there's enough guilt to go around. The Northern states originally were also involved with
slavery, a fact not mentioned by you and rarely iealsewhere. Northerners were the slavers that built slave ships and manufactured goods for trading and Northern merchants traded with native people for slaves. It was not Southern farmers going to Africa for invading the continent for slaves, but they bought slaves from the northern merchant. In fact my ggggrandfather (3) gfathers was a slave.  This also applies to most African- Americans. My 14 year old gggmother was raped, and he was hung. Heard this from my grandmother. Not that I'm proud of this part of my ancestory. But I have had life, which otherwise I would not have had.
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My mother was from Germany, married my father,  stationed in Germany after WWII. So, had it not been for slavery I would not have had life, nor life in the US. Would my father and mother ever have met except for WWII - not likely.   The point is we don't always have control over the events that happened, and often tragedies that happen can have positive outcomes for some of us.
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https://www.marottaonmoney.com/protective-tariffs-the-primary-cause-of-the-civil-war/ >
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https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/tariffs-and-the-american-civil-war.html >
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_in_United_States_history

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90% of what you wrote has nothing to do with the topic. I for one don't believe much of anything you wrote about your family history, and even if it's true, I don't care.
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Your first reference was written by a pair of financial advisers. Couldn't you have at least made an effort to find even a shitty apologist historian to support your disgusting racist bullshit? As for your second reference, here's a passage from near the end (did you read anything besides the title? Your scholarship is matched evenly with your honesty- both are in the sewer):
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"For the northern government’s diplomatic objectives, as Cobden and Bright continuously reminded Sumner, the Morrill Tariff had been a shortsighted strategic blunder. It unintentionally alienated an otherwise natural anti-slavery ally for what could, at best, be described as short term economic favors to a few politically connected firms and industrialists. The Confederacy eagerly exploited this misstep in its unsuccessful quest for diplomatic recognition, yet in doing so also elevated the tariff cause from its role as an ancillary secessionist grievance to a centerpiece of Lost Cause historiography."
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That last bit about "Lost Cause historiography"? They are pointing right at you (and the racist scum who wrote your first shitty reference).
 You're still wrong about everything, and you're a liar, and you're a racist and an apologist for slavers.

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You are so typical of people who cannot discredit an argument, they sink to slander, false accusations, liable, malice, back stabbing and character assassination. You did this without an shred
of evidence to back up your charges and accusations. This no doubt is you projecting you absence of character onto me. I'll have nothing more to do with you, a false accuser!

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Spare me your faux outrage.
You claimed no one cared about slavery until two years after the Civil War started. I brought up the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Bleeding Kansas- all years before the start of the Civil War. You claimed that tariffs were the primary cause of the Civil War. I brought up the Articles of Secession of every one of the rebel states, all of which list slavery as the reason they seceded. I also brought up the Cornerstone Speech by the vice-president of the CSA, in which he clearly states the same thing.
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That you refuse to acknowledge evidence does not mean it does not exist. That you continue to roll out your Lost Cause bullshit and deny slavery caused the Civil War is the typical apologetic crap of racist revisionists. It would seem obvious to the casual observer that you are the once with no evidence, and you are going into your little anger routine (again) to cover it up. You are dishonest, you refuse to address arguments that prove you wrong (and you're still wrong about everything) and the garbage you spew is racist revisionist sewage.
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But by all means, have nothing else to do with me. I would be wondering what horrible thing I'd done if you had a good opinion of me.
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 From the previous century
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Josiah Wedgewood (Darwin's grandfather) manufactured the abolitionist "am I not a man and a brother" medallion in 1787.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedgwood_anti-slavery_medallion
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"The Slave's Lament", commonly attributed to Robert Burns, was published in 1792.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave%27s_Lament
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Now we are likely to hear about the English participation in the slave trade for all those years. Never mind they banned slavery years before the US- it's still obviously ALL THEIR FAULT- just as Dean trotted out the fact that slavery was at one time legal in northern states, too. A more pathetic example of tu quoque is difficult to find.

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Going back to the 11th Century
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"A social reformer, Wulfstan struggled to bridge the gap between the old and new regimes, and to alleviate the suffering of the poor. He was a strong opponent of the slave trade, and together with Lanfranc, was mainly responsible for ending the trade from Bristol." (WikiPedia)
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This Guy, Chis read meaning into my comments that I never intended, never thought and never meant!
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And yet you never recanted your errors. You claimed tariffs were the cause of the Civil War.

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  I was never taught that tariffs were the cause of the US Civil War.  I had always accepted that slavery was the primary cause of the US Civil War. I did a search of the net and what I found was that unfair tariffs imposed on the South was the cause of the war between the states. I was surprised by this!

I bet you were surprised. I'd be surprised too. I'd also be surprised if I saw a unicorn feeding unobtainium chips to Bigfoot while he and his pet chupacabra rode around on the Loch Ness Monster.

There are several sources for this claim: None less than Britannica, Wikepediam Smithsonian magazine:
https://www.britannica.com/video/245851/Tariff-of-1828
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_in_United_States_history
https://www.marottaonmoney.com/protective-tariffs-the-primary-cause-of-the-civil-war/

Your credibility is officially shit.
Burkhard pointed out on 5/14 (and if you'd done your due diligence to check your sources, you'd have known) that the rebel states had already seceded when the Morrill Tariff was passed. The sole exception to this was Virginia. The Morrill Tariff was passed in March 1861 and Virginia seceded in June. But their declaration of secession makes no mention of tariffs, or any economic matter. All they mention is the oppression of "slaveholding states".

https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/tariffs-founding-era-to-american-civil-war/  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/history-american-shifting-position-tariffs-180968775/https://philmagness.com/2017/05/on-tariffs-and-the-american-civil-war/    The Cornerstone speech and the Articles of

Secession of all of the rebel states prove you wrong.

Do you think that slavery was the only cause? I can believe that slavery definately was a cause, but slavery had existed in the South for 240+ years before the start of the civil war. So, there must have been other factors which sparked the war. I know there were people in the North and indeed the South. I learned that a small percentage of Southerners were slave holders.

As John Harshman pointed out, the war began when the north was (finally) doing the right thing and moving to end slavery. And you're moving the goalposts here- you changed from "Tariffs caused the Civil War" to "tariffs were the main cause." No matter. Here's an interesting quote:
“I always understood that we went to War on account of the thing we quarreled with the North about,” Mosby observed. “I never heard of any other cause of quarrel than slavery.”
- - Col. John Mosby ("Mosby's Rangers"), 1894
Here are the declarations of secession of 5 states. The declarations of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Tennessee are also all online.
I challenge you to provide a quote from any one of these documents that lists tariffs as more important than slavery.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
You are asserting a position that contradicts the rebels' own words. That's so mind-boggling I cannot decide if you are trolling, an imbecile, or totally invested in racist Lost Cause apologetics. It could be any one of those, or two, or even all three, and it really doesn't matter. You are coming across as a badly defective individual.
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asserted is typical- no, stereotypical- of racist Lost Cause apologists trying to whitewash the south's reprehensible behavior. And you never rejected it.
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QED. The shoe fits.
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